Juneteenth

 

President Biden has just added the 12th national holiday to our calendar, June 19 … called “Juneteenth” … cute … the day in 1865 that black slaves in Texas found out that Abraham Lincoln had freed them 2 1/2 years earlier by signing the Emancipation Proclamation.

Now, I am a little puzzled  … why is this a holiday and not honoring January 1, 1863, the day the actual emancipation occurred?

Isn’t this a little anticlimactic … like celebrating the day that the last Japanese soldier came out of the caves on Okinawa ten years after the war officially ended on August 15, 1945? (vJ Day is now only celebrated in Rhode Island.)

To me, it seems so off the mark … or is this just a way of disrespecting Lincoln?

STAND UP FOR HONEST ABE!